Advanced circular manufacturing would take whole waste streams, not one sorted fraction, and make products, fuels and chemicals from them. Whether that is legal depends on how each state's law defines solid waste, and many of those definitions date from the 1970s and 1980s. This page shows, state by state, which materials the law lets a manufacturer take directly as feedstock, which need a case-by-case approval, and which stay regulated as solid-waste processing or disposal.
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Hover a cell for what the law says; select a state for its full profile.
Blue: unsorted waste sent to manufacturing is not regulated as solid waste. Amber: a pending bill or proposed rule would make it so. Orange: using waste as a feedstock stays under solid-waste law. That includes the advanced recycling laws, which exempt only sorted post-use plastics under conditions written into waste law, and exemptions limited to sorted recyclables or listed materials. Every state card names those narrower routes.
| State | Waste permit for manufacturing | Advanced recycling law | Pathway out of waste status | Confidence |
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